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Johns Hopkins Hospital (Photo by WBAL's Anne Kramer)

Attorney Andrew Slutkin talks to WBAL's Anne Kramer about the letter Hopkins sent in response to his law firm's investigation involving Dr. Nikita Levy Download This File

Johns Hopkins Hospital has now confirmed that it was contacted by an employee on February 4th who noticed that a gynecologist was wearing a device which looked like a pen around his neck while examining patients and she believed it was a camera.

The confirmation came in a letter from the JHH President and the Dean of the Medical Faculty to the Baltimore law firm of Slutkin, Silverman, Thompson and White.

The firm sent a letter to Hopkins last week as part of its investigation into the alleged actions of Dr. Nikita Levy after victims started to contact their firm.

Andrew Slutkin with the firm tells WBAL Radio this is the first time that Johns Hopkins Hospital has confirmed the information since Levy committed suicide on February 18th.

Slutkin says it also requested Hopkins provide assurances that patients privacy rights were being protected and to disclose what Hopkins knew about the matter involving Dr. Levy.

He says that the hospital stated in the letter that the photos and videos taken by Levy have been turned over to police and federal authorities and that they are being kept strictly confidential.

Slutkin says the confirmation is very important because it provides some sort of comfort to the victims because previously there was silence on behalf of Hopkins.

In the letter, the hospital says it has security procedures in place to protect other patients.

"One of the things we are hearing from our clients and other victims of this is that they want more information. They want to know how this event unfolded, what Hopkins did prior to this event to protect patients privacy and what it is doing now to prevent something like this from happening again," says Slutkin.

He says some of their clients started seeing Dr. Levy when they were 13-years-old. Other victims are reported to be in their 60's and 70's.

City Police and federal authorities are continuing their investigation.